Re: OT: GUI [was:]Ann: TeXCAD 4.1

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Marius Amado Alves wrote:

> I find it funny that a constant look and feel is so assumed to be a good 
> thing. It is not. It only makes beginners confuse all applications. Vive la 
> différence.

I'll tell you why I like neither Emacs nor VI: Because they are so 
different from all the other programs I use. I want to be able to press 
the same key combinations for common commands like save, exit, copy and 
paste, I want close, minimize and maximize buttons in the same places in 
all windows, and I want similar menu entries in similar places. I *can* 
learn a lot of different user interfaces, but I don't like it.

And I have a theory about why Emacs has everything but a kitchen sink. I 
think Emacs users want to do everything in Emacs because they find all 
other programs so different from Emacs.

People want consistent user interfaces. It lets them concentrate on what 
they're doing instead of unimportant details like which command saves 
the file in this particular program.

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Björn Persson

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